Privilege Escalation Affecting jinja2 package, versions [,2.7.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-JINJA2-40250
  • published18 Jan 2014
  • disclosed18 Jan 2014
  • creditArun Babu Neelicattu

Introduced: 18 Jan 2014

CVE-2014-0012  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Jinja2 to version 2.7.2 or higher.

Overview

Jinja2 is a template engine written in pure Python. It provides a Django inspired non-XML syntax but supports inline expressions and an optional sandboxed environment.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to not properly creating temporary directories, which allows local users to gain privileges by pre-creating a temporary directory with a user's UID.

NOTE: This vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-1402.

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